Introduction to the three pillars

What matters to an organization? The ability to conduct business, achieve its mission, and grow its business.

Doing this in today’s dynamically changing world is like navigating a constantly changing obstacle course. You must have a clear plan to get to your objectives and you must keep moving forward, but you also have to be flexible and adjust based on what you learn on that journey.

To enable this, we recommend using a simple three-pillar model based on The Open Group’s SOA for Business Technology guide (http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/wp_soa4bt/p2.htm).

At its very simplest, this is a plan → do → run framework, but it has been tailored to Zero Trust and the complex and continuously changing business, technology, and threat environments of today.

This model provides much-needed clarity on how to integrate security and Zero Trust into an organization’s strategy, processes, and daily operations...